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I had that issue also early on and it was because I was sweeping my wedges and shot would go straight up and short. Are you taking a divot at all with these swings?

Congrats! Thats a huge accomplishment and congrats on the future new clubs, you deserve em!

I would say you just scrap the 18 and use it as a practice round. I think we've all been there before

I played 9 this evening a shot +5. I was +3 after 3 holes and then the irons started to come together. At first, my swing thought throughout the entire swing was keeping a flat wrist and because of that it kind of took away from what the rest of my body was supposed to be doing and wasn't getting my weight forward all the way. After a few holes I would take two practice swings just focusing on flat wrist and then when I addressed the ball I wouldnt think about it at all and I started to hit some nice shots. Driver and short game was on all night for sure which saved me a few times. About what you said about how I seemed to have picked it up rather quickly, thats kind of how golf has been so far for me. After playing baseball for the last 19 years competitively year round, I was used to practicing or playing every day. Literally the day after my senior season ended I went out golfing with some buddies for the first time. I caught the bug instantly and have practiced or played all but a few days over those 3.5 months. The first few times I wouldnt even keep score because it was so bad, but after I found this site I started working on drills and was able to lose a lot of my "baseball" swing. After a couple weeks of practice I broke 100 and havent seen it again. Lately, I have shot mostly low-mid 80's along with 76 and 78. I mainly just attribute this due to the hours of practice every day and just the general hand eye coordination I have from playing baseball for so long. Everything is still a work in progress, like most people I'll go out and just not have it that day, but that just motivates me to practice more. I know I'll most likely never be a scratch golfer, but I would love in a year or two to just play in the low to mid single digits. Now my only regret was buying higher handicap clubs with a big ol cavity and not allowing me to work the ball well and I don't have much confidence standing over them. Thank God for golf and jobs that allow 14 days off a month Sorry for novel.

All i can say is, WOW. I have been golfing for 3.5 months now after finishing up my baseball career and have gotten my handicap pretty low all things considered. However, I have been getting frustrated on the course with inconsistent contact as well as too many fat shots. I know that I have not had a flat wrist and that I flip a little through impact, but I was planning on working on that this winter. However, after shooting a 96 yesterday after 5 straight rounds in the low 80's I decided to try and finally work on keeping a flat wrist. All I can say is that this should have been the first thing I worked on. My club distances instantly went up over a club length and it seemed effortless. Also, I don't know if it is related at all but it seemed to sink up my body in the swing much better as well and I was able to get a much better transfer to the front side. Basically this is just a post out of excitement, along with trying to encourage fellow players who have a flip in their swing or a big cupped wrist to try and work on the flat wrist. I'm looking forward to practicing this a lot and hopefully see my handicap drop again. Nothing better than seeing a nice divot out in front of the ball consistently for once.

Every time you walk in front of a mirror you stop and do slow swings to check the form

In terms of hitting off the heal, I would try backing off the ball an inch, and or also try aligning the ball on the toe of the club face at address. See if that fixes anything.

I just graduated college where I played baseball and previously played since I was three. I had never picked up a golf club before until 3.5 months ago. First few weeks of playing i was in the 120's but now I am usually mid-high 80's with an occasional low 80 or a low 90. Most of my friends think that I have picked golf up so quickly mainly because I already have good hand-eye coordination. (I mainly think its because I was so used to practicing baseball every day that now I put a ton of time into practicing my golf game and its starting to show)